We subscribe to 1password for families and it works perfectly. We have 3 kids and my mom lives with us. The app lets us have a shared vault for all the common stuff everyone needs access to, like the Netflix and HBO login. We have another shared vault for stuff they dont need all the time, but might need access to like the Amazon password. Then my husband and I have another vault that only we have access to, where we put our banking and stuff. And then everyone has their own personal vault. You can search vaults individually or search all at once.
The first thing thats great is that it is allowing us to set long randomized passwords. I feel much more secure that using the same handful of passwords, or keeping passwords jotted down in contacts or notes. It is great for sites and apps that regularly make you switch passwords, making them hard to memorize.
Everything syncs, across macs, PCs, iPhones and Android devices. No matter what platform we are on, our passwords are right there. Syncing happens within seconds and it is seamless.
Using the browser extensions are so incredibly easy. It will sense what page you are on and bring up the correct accounts, allowing you to fill username and password with just a click. Every time i create a new login, it will ask if i want to save it, so i dont even have to think about it. The password generator is great, giving you several options as to length, characters, numbers and symbols or allowing the option of easier to remember word based passwords with three unrelated words. Online shopping is easy as it will fill out your credit card info, and you have an identity option to fill in common form fields. I now keep my kids social security numbers encrypted in the app instead of in my contacts, unsecured. All those random bits of info, like frequent flyer numbers, etc. easily find a home in the app.
And it is all synced, shared and encrypted. You can unlock your vaults with either a long password or touch id. More and more apps are integrating 1password and touch id into their login process. If the app isnt integrated, it is very easy to just cut and paste passwords.
The other great thing is that if anything were to happen to either me or my husband, our family just needs the account key from our safety deposit box and they have access to everything in one place: all banking, all insurance policies, our wills are uploaded with contact info for our estate attorney, any other notes anyone might need. After my husbands aunt passed away, he and his sister had to go on a hunt trying to track down all of her accounts, close down subscriptions and other bills, find her life insurance info and guess at all her passwords. They were grieving and it made things so much harder. That they were able to guess her passwords showed how unsecured her information was.
The only little complaint i have is that the user interface is a little different between the mobile app, the desktop app and the browser version. There are some functions you cant complete on the mobile app. Also the UI is a little confusing at first. Its been a little bit of a learning curve for my mother.
But all in all, this has definitely been all I really needed it to be. For a family, the subscription is definitely worth the price to have our information shared but still secure.